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Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Imogen and Twinka

Imogen and Twinka

1974
(American, 1941-)
America, 20th century
Gelatin silver print
Image: 24.3 x 19.1 cm (9 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 24.3 x 19.1 cm (9 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Mounted: 45.7 x 35.4 cm (18 x 13 15/16 in.)
Gift of Tom E. Hinson and Diana S. Tittle 2017.228
© 1974 Judy Dater
Location: not on view

Description

This iconic double portrait shows the famed nonagenarian photographer Imogen Cunningham coming upon the young model Twinka Thiebaud in the woods of Yosemite. Dater’s composition is inspired by, and reacts against, Thomas Hart Benton’s painting of Persephone of 1939. In her photograph, voyeurism gives way to an exchange of gazes between age and youth, human and possible nymph.
  • Dater, Judy, and James Enyeart. Judy Dater, Twenty Years. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, in association with the De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, 1986.
    Cunningham, Imogen, and Judy Dater. Imogen Cunningham: A Portrait. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979.
    Dater, Judy, Jack Welpott, and Henry Holmes Smith. Women and Other Visions. 1975.
  • {{cite web|title=Imogen and Twinka|url=false|author=Judy Dater|year=1974|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.228